Greg Parks

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CanadaCanada  Greg Parks Ice hockey player
Date of birth March 25, 1967
place of birth Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
date of death June 16, 2015
Place of death Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 82 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1983-1985 St. Albert Saints
1985-1989 Bowling Green State University
1989 Kärpät Oulu
1989-1990 Springfield Indians
1990-1992 Capital District Islanders
1992-1994 Leksands IF
1994-1995 Krefelder EV
1995-1996 Brynäs IF
1996-1999 SC Langnau
1999-2000 Leksands IF
2000-2001 Friborg-Gottéron
2001-2002 IF Björklöven
2002-2004 Ōji Eagles

Gregory Parks (born March 25, 1967 in Edmonton , Alberta ; † June 16, 2015 ibid) was a Canadian ice hockey player , coach and official who worked for the New York Islanders in the National from 1983 to 2004 Hockey League and the Krefelder EV in the German Ice Hockey League .

Career

Greg Parks began his career as a hockey player with the Alberta Saints, for which he was active from 1983 to 1985 in the Alberta Junior Hockey League . In the 1984/85 season he was voted the most valuable player in the AJHL. From 1985 to 1989 he attended Bowling Green State University , for whose ice hockey team he played parallel to his studies in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association . With his university team he won the CCHA championship in 1987. The 1989/90 season began the center at Kärpät Oulu in the I-divisioona , the second Finnish division, and ended it with the Johnstown Chiefs from the ECHL and the Springfield Indians from the American Hockey League . With Springfield he won the Calder Cup straight away . In August 1990 he signed a contract as a free agent with the New York Islanders , where he could not prevail. In three years he only played a total of 25 games for the Islanders in the National Hockey League . During his first two years with the New York Islanders, he ran parallel for their farm team Capital District Islanders from the AHL.

From 1992 to 1994 Parks played mostly for Leksands IF in the Elitserien , the highest Swedish division. He spent the 1994/95 season at Krefelder EV in the newly founded German Ice Hockey League . For the Rhinelander, however, he only played a total of eleven games, in which he scored two goals and seven assists. For the 1995/96 season , the Canadian Brynäs IF joined from the Elitserien. From 1996 to 1999 he was under contract with SC Langnau . With the Swiss he reached after two years in the second-class National League B 1998 promotion to the National League A . For the 1999/2000 season , the 1994 Olympian returned to Leksands IF in the Elitserien. After a year and a half, he moved to Friborg-Gottéron from the NLA during the 2000/01 season . During the 2001/02 season he was for IF Björklöven in the second Swedish division, the Allsvenskan , on the ice. With the team he failed only in the Kvalserien on promotion to the Elitserien. Most recently, he played from 2002 to 2004 for the Ōji Eagles in the Japan Ice Hockey League . With the Japanese, he also took part in the game operation of the first-ever multinational Asia League Ice Hockey in the 2003/04 season .

From 2010 to 2012 he worked as head coach and general manager for St. Albert Steel from the Alberta Junior Hockey League. Since the 2012/13 season he was GM and Director of Hockey Operations at the Whitecourt Wolverines, also in the AJHL.

International

For Canada , Parks took part in the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , where he won the silver medal with his team.

Achievements and Awards

International

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season 3 23 1 2 3 6th
NHL playoffs 1 2 0 0 0 0
DEL main round 1 10 2 7th 9 8th
DEL playoffs 1 1 0 0 0 0
NLA main round 2 46 20th 32 52 14th
NLA playoffs 2 9 4th 9 13 25th
Elitserien main round 5 147 73 64 137 194
Elitserien Playoffs 2 5 3 1 4th 8th

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ex-Langnauer Greg Parks died. In: Blick vom June 17, 2015 (accessed June 18, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Parks, Greg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parks, Gregory
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 2015
Place of death Edmonton , Alberta , Canada